ETYMOLOGY OF ARABIC TERMS DENOTING INTERNAL BODY PARTS
ETYMOLOGY OF ARABIC TERMS DENOTING INTERNAL BODY PARTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of etymological research on Arabic somatic terms that denote internal body parts, namely ri’a “lung”, ṭiḥāl “spleen”, ma‘ida/mi‘da “stomach”, kulya/kulwa “kidney”, mi‘an , maṣīr “intestine” on the basis of CS etymological material. The semantic structure of each of these terms is studied and derivational relations between direct and figurative values are established. Derivational valence of these somatic terms and collective semantics of its derivatives are examined on the basis of materials from classical and modern Arabic explanatory dictionaries. A stock of somatic idioms with ri’a, ṭiḥāl, kulya/kulwa, ma‘ida /mi‘da, mi‘an , maṣīr as its core component is studied in its structural and semantic framework.

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